Joined: 04 Sep 2006Posts: 2545Location: North of the People's Republic of Massachusetts

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:14 pm Post subject:

Clearly it's a typo. Fox is being pretty harsh with Sanford. Neil Cavuto was interviewing someone who was attempting to rationalize it with a 'the human sex drive is so powerful!' argument. Bah. Other than that one guest, people are highly critical of him.

Joined: 04 Sep 2006Posts: 2545Location: North of the People's Republic of Massachusetts

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 3:05 pm Post subject:

What's funny is that after Spitzer and Edwards both got caught in their own affairs, Ensign and Sanford must have been all "Bahaha!! Losers. No way that'll ever happen to me! Come on baby, I want to put my Commander in Chief into your Oval Office unf unf unf!"

Okay, so, the live press conference is over. We'll swap in video once they get it up, but basically Sanford came out, apologized to every person he's ever met, living or dead, admitted that the Appalachian Trail "ain't where I went," apologized some more, mumbled on about God's law for a while, copped to having an affair with a "dear, dear friend from Argentina," apologized again, answered a couple of questions, but refused to say whether he'd resign as governor. This was one of the weirdest press conferences I've ever seen, including Budd Dwyer's. If you missed it, you'll want to watch the video when it's available… it is astounding. Also, if you had any doubt that God loves Barack Obama, you can set it aside, because he SO CLEARLY DOES.

Good answer, but no, also, 2 weeks detention for swearing in class. Come on, it's doubtful that no one here knows this.

"Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt"?

Good job Billy! In this case, Fox is trying to create uncertainty about the political party that the Governor belongs to. Not too much, but just enough for the cognitive dissonance in their core audience to take over.

Joined: 04 Sep 2006Posts: 2545Location: North of the People's Republic of Massachusetts

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 6:46 pm Post subject:

kame wrote:

All together class, what does FUD stand for?

"Fox Undercutting Democrats"?

Nooooo, but close. Anyone?

"Fucked Up Deucy"?

Good answer, but no, also, 2 weeks detention for swearing in class. Come on, it's doubtful that no one here knows this.

"Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt"?

Good job Billy! In this case, Fox is trying to create uncertainty about the political party that the Governor belongs to. Not too much, but just enough for the cognitive dissonance in their core audience to take over.

Right, so those herring impaired people who eschew closed captioning, cannot read the lips of the commentators, don't access any other source of news, and have nobody to correct them, ever, will be totally fooled! And any of them who do manage to figure out what's going on get thrown down a mineshaft, muahaha!

(Oops, I said 'herring impaired' this time, so clearly there's some doubt as to whether I mean people with hearing problems or those who don't eat much fish. Which is it? DUN DUN DUUUUN!)